WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 9 August 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

HOW TO MAKE A POCHETTE. To-day we are going to talk about a . pochette to ■ match the hat-band you made last week. Choose soft linen in the same colour as the petersham band, and cut two pieces, each eight and a half inches by twelve and a half inches, for the outside and the lining; get also a piece of buckram, eight inches wide and twelve inches long, for the foundation. The ‘'flower .garden" embroidery is worked - across the edge of the linen which will be, turned over to form the flap. Fold one of the pieces of linen in

three, to see where this flap will come, find the middle of it, and work a roe/ bush like the one on the hat, in the centre. Make the bush about two and a half inches high, and finish the stem a quarter of an inch up from the edge. <On either side of the rose bush work other flowers—hollyhocks, delphiniums, daisies, and smaller rose bushes —as we explained last week. Prose the work, and you are ready to make up the pochette. Place the buckram on top of the embroidered linen, being careful to have it exactly in the centre. Fold over the edges of the'linen and sew it down to thd buckram. Turn in the edges of the other niece of linen so that it fits, lay over the covered buckram, and saw all round. Fold the pochette four inches up from the bottom, and sew the sides together to form a hag. Bind the top and sides with coloured wool braid, ae shown in the second little diagram, and sew press-studs on the bottom of the pocket and at the edges of the flap. Be careful to arrange things so that you get the right side of the cm.brbidered flan outside.

You might make a tiny purse to match the pochette. Stitch it to one end of a cord, slip- it inside the bag, and stitch the other end of the cord to the flap, so that it will be secure. Wendy’s Dressmaker.